Country Matters: A Personal History of Swear Words (ePub)
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In this humorous and playful short book arguing against censorship of language and recounting his own evolution from repressed prude to libertarian, freewheeling slinger of juicy-Lucy words, the author suggests that sexual words, slang, and wordplay are "to be celebrated as joyous, vital, funny, juicy, the very essence of life. Man is a neutered animal without them; polite language is effete, artificial, and an unspoken admission of one's total and abject submission to the System."
Still, in the large and growing-ever-larger vocabulary of naughty words, there is a hierarchy, which is explained with humor and wordplay in the book's central essay, "What Do You Call It? A Gentleman's Opinionated Guide to the Basic Words."
This hierarchy is personal, and has nothing to do with political correctness. The only truly "bad" words, the author suggests, are monstrosities like "birthing," "interfacing," and "modalities."
Richard's books include fiction, nonfiction, essays, autobiography, humor, and satire, and have been described as "exuberant," "courageous," "hilarious," and "going where no Indian writer has gone before."
His 12 books include "Impressing the Whites," "The Killing of an Author," and the subversive anthology of humor, "I Will Not Go the F**k to Sleep" (a non-parental version with more political humor has been published under the title "The Empire Bites Back"); he also edited and added essays to his father's memoir, "Eaten by the Japanese: The Memoir of an Unknown Indian Prisoner of War." His motives for writing include a passion for justice and free expression and a love of laughter.
Richard has traveled widely in North America, Asia, and Europe, and though technically a New York resident, spends most of his time in Asia working on seven books in progress. His likes include a wide range of music, movies, theater, and travel.
You may write to Richard at rc@richardcrasta.com or visit his website, http://www.richardcrasta.com
- Autor: Richard Crasta
- 2021, Englisch
- Verlag: Invisible Man Press
- ISBN-10: 1393920985
- ISBN-13: 9781393920984
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.01.2021
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